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Ultraviolet light can kill almost all the viruses in a room. Why isn’t it everywhere? (www.vox.com)
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[–] kool_newt@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

uvc doesn't give you cancer, it can't penetrate deep enough, and the type of DNA damage it causes immediately kills the cell so it can't reproduce, cancer is cells that reproduce and don't die.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_germicidal_irradiation